Mattermark Daily — Thursday July 21st, 2016

July 22, 2016 -

By Alex Wilhelm

Well, it’s not called Bluepoint Ventures.

From the Investors

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures examines the slowing pace of new SaaS startup creation in “The Decline Of New SaaS Company Formation.” Tunguz postulates that increased competition and having “the key systems of record in SaaS” in place are partially to blame.

Investor Semil Shah interviewed Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Jeremy Liewfor StrictlyVC in “Jeremy Liew On What He Will, And Won’t, Invest In Right Now.” Against the grain, Liew says that he “believe[s] in media companies,” and while “many think that big companies can’t be built in [the] area” that “the growth in video is changing that dynamic.”